Written Answers Monday 2 April 2007

Scottish Executive

Autism

Ms Maureen Watt (North East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) adults and (b) children were diagnosed with autism in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board and showing year-on-year percentage changes.

Ms Maureen Watt (North East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many families there were in which at least one adult and one child were diagnosed with autism in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board and showing year-on-year percentage changes.

Lewis Macdonald: The information requested is not available centrally.

Care of Elderly People

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it will take to secure provision for care for elderly people in south Lochaber while the application for the closure of Glencoe Hospital by NHS Highland is pending, while the Parliament is dissolved and until a new Executive in established.

Lewis Macdonald: NHS Highland has assured Scottish ministers that elderly people in south Lochaber will continue to have access to a comprehensive range of health care services pending a ministerial decision on the boards proposals for the future of Glencoe hospital.

Dentistry

Tricia Marwick (Mid Scotland and Fife) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-20888 by Lewis Macdonald on 29 November 2005, how many people aged 60 and over are registered with an NHS dentist, broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) Scottish parliamentary constituency.

Lewis Macdonald: The information requested is provided in the following table by NHS board. Information is not available for parliamentary constituency, as patient postcode is not collected.

  Number of People Aged 60 and Over Registered with an NHS Dentist, by NHS Board, at 31 March 2006

  

 NHS board
 No. of People Registered Aged 60 and Over


 Argyll and Clyde
 36,871


 Ayrshire and Arran
 38,321


 Borders
 10,238


 Dumfries and Galloway
 9,115


 Fife
 29,077


 Forth Valley
 22,098


 Grampian
 26,233


 Greater Glasgow
 74,722


 Highland
 10,304


 Lanarkshire
 42,126


 Lothian
 62,705


 Orkney
 880


 Shetland
 1,364


 Tayside
 40,117


 Western Isles
 2,018


 Scotland
 406,189



  Source: ISD Scotland.

Dentistry

Tricia Marwick (Mid Scotland and Fife) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-20887 by Lewis Macdonald on 29 November 2005, how many people aged 16 and under are registered with an NHS dentist, broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) Scottish parliamentary constituency.

Lewis Macdonald: The information requested is provided in the following table by NHS board. Information is not available for parliamentary constituency, as patient postcode is not collected.

  Number of People Aged 16 and Under Registered with an NHS Dentist, by NHS Board, at 31 March 2006

  

 NHS board
 No. of People Registered Aged 16 and Under


 Argyll and Clyde
 54,820


 Ayrshire and Arran
 51,680


 Borders
 12,805


 Dumfries and Galloway
 16,605


 Fife
 42,703


 Forth Valley
 39,905


 Grampian
 60,690


 Greater Glasgow
 122,313


 Highland
 25,232


 Lanarkshire
 74,360


 Lothian
 106,027


 Orkney
 1,217


 Shetland
 2,613


 Tayside
 55,008


 Western Isles
 977


 Scotland
 666,995



  Source: ISD Scotland.

Equal Opportunities

Susan Deacon (Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in implementing the recommendations of the Inclusion Project report, published in October 2003.

Lewis Macdonald: Fair for All LGBT , as the Inclusion Project is now known, is a partnership between Stonewall Scotland and the Scottish Executive Health Department. The project supports NHS boards to engage with local LGBT people and community organisations and work with them to implement the recommendations in Towards a Healthier LGBT Scotland locally.

  More recently, pilot work with NHS boards resulted in the project publishing Good LGBT Practice in the NHS and Getting it Right: LGBT Research Guidelines which address many of the recommendations from the initial report. More information about the projects work can be found at: http://www.lgbthealthscotland.org.uk/home.htm.

  From April 2008 the project will be integrated with the other strands of our Fair for All programme to provide a single mainstream source of advice and support to ensure that whatever the individual circumstances of peoples lives, including age, gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation or other circumstances, they have access to the right health service for their needs.

Health

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of how the Hospital at Home scheme operates, how it is funded, what personnel are required and where it has been piloted.

Lewis Macdonald: It is for NHS boards to provide high quality, safe and sustainable healthcare services that meet the needs of its local population. Hospital at Home schemes are community based services designed to provide a care package around an individuals needs which support prevention of admission to hospital and early discharge from hospital. The detail, planning and funding of these services are operational matters for NHS boards.

Ministerial Costs

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of ministerial expenses, not including staff expenses, was in each year since 1999, broken down by minister.

Tom McCabe: The detailed information requested is currently being collated and I will write to the member as soon as the information is available.

NHS Services

Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): To ask the Scottish Executive how many reviews of NHS services, such as chronic pain and wheelchairs, have been carried out since 1990, showing the cost of each review.

Lewis Macdonald: Reviewing NHS services is a core function of the NHS in Scotland and the Scottish Executive Health Department and assessing, reconfiguring and modernising services for the benefit of patients is a continuous process. A great number of reviews have been undertaken since 1990, including those undertaken by previous administrations. Many of these were carried out at local level. The information requested is therefore not held centrally.

NHS Staff

Ms Maureen Watt (North East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many community psychiatric nurses were employed by each NHS board in each year since 1999, showing year-on-year percentage changes.

Mr Lewis Macdonald: The table shows the head count for community psychiatric nurses employed by each NHS board in each year since 1999 and year-on-year percentage changes.

  Community Psychiatric Nurses by NHS Board

  

 
 Head Count at 30 September
 


 1999
 2000
 2001
 2002
 2003
 2004
 2005


 Scotland
 624
 664
 742
 783
 929
 982
 1,065


 NHS Argyll and Clyde 
 60
 69
 78
 86
 85
 83
 83


 NHS Ayrshire and Arran 
 103
 123
 119
 119
 118
 130
 127


 NHS Borders 
 17
 16
 18
 16
 16
 19
 20


 NHS Dumfries and Galloway 
 37
 38
 41
 43
 46
 43
 41


 NHS Fife 
 29
 30
 35
 34
 35
 38
 39


 NHS Forth Valley 
 53
 53
 52
 48
 48
 47
 48


 NHS Grampian 
 61
 59
 60
 55
 54
 53
 55


 NHS Greater Glasgow 
 33
 34
 50
 57
 183
 179
 188


 NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
 x
 x
 x
 x
 x
 x
 x


 NHS Highland 
 47
 46
 65
 70
 58
 92
 95


 NHS Lanarkshire 
 80
 75
 74
 81
 82
 83
 78


 NHS Lothian 
 42
 48
 70
 103
 110
 130
 207


 NHS Orkney 
 1
 4
 4
 5
 5
 6
 5


 NHS Shetland
 5
 5
 7
 7
 7
 7
 7


 NHS Tayside 
 51
 59
 60
 57
 54
 58
 60


 NHS Western Isles 
 5
 5
 5
 2
 1
 1
 1


 NHS 24
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 13
 11


 NHS National Services Scotland
 -
 -
 4
 -
 -
 -
 -



  

 
Change
1999-2000
Change
2000-01
Change
2001-02
Change
2002-03
Change
2003-04
Change
2004-05
Change
2005-06


 Scotland
 6.4%
 11.7%
 5.5%
 18.6%
 5.7%
 8.5%
 ..


 NHS Argyll and Clyde 
 15.0%
 13.0%
 10.3%
 -1.2%
 -2.4%
 0.0%
 ..


 NHS Ayrshire and Arran 
 19.4%
 -3.3%
 0.0%
 -0.8%
 10.2%
 -2.3%
 ..


 NHS Borders 
 -5.9%
 12.5%
 -11.1%
 0.0%
 18.8%
 5.3%
 ..


 NHS Dumfries and Galloway 
 2.7%
 7.9%
 4.9%
 7.0%
 -6.5%
 -4.7%
 ..


 NHS Fife 
 3.4%
 16.7%
 -2.9%
 2.9%
 8.6%
 2.6%
 ..


 NHS Forth Valley 
 0.0%
 -1.9%
 -7.7%
 0.0%
 -2.1%
 2.1%
 ..


 NHS Grampian 
 -3.3%
 1.7%
 -8.3%
 -1.8%
 -1.9%
 3.8%
 ..


 NHS Greater Glasgow 
 3.0%
 47.1%
 14.0%
 221.1%
 -2.2%
 5.0%
 ..


 NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
 x
 x
 x
 x
 x
 x
 ..


 NHS Highland 
 -2.1%
 41.3%
 7.7%
 -17.1%
 58.6%
 3.3%
 ..


 NHS Lanarkshire 
 -6.3%
 -1.3%
 9.5%
 1.2%
 1.2%
 -6.0%
 ..


 NHS Lothian 
 14.3%
 45.8%
 47.1%
 6.8%
 18.2%
 59.2%
 ..


 NHS Orkney 
 300.0%
 0.0%
 25.0%
 0.0%
 20.0%
 -16.7%
 ..


 NHS Shetland
 0.0%
 40.0%
 0.0%
 0.0%
 0.0%
 0.0%
 ..


 NHS Tayside 
 15.7%
 1.7%
 -5.0%
 -5.3%
 7.4%
 3.4%
 ..


 NHS Western Isles 
 0.0%
 0.0%
 -60.0%
 -50.0%
 0.0%
 0.0%
 ..


 NHS 24
 x
 x
 x
 x
 x
 -15.4%
 ..


 NHS National Services Scotland
 x
 x
 x
 x
 x
 x

People with Learning Disabilities

Margaret Mitchell (Central Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many people who have been the subject of VI1 reports issued by social work departments in the last year have also been referred to an assessment centre for people with learning disabilities.

Lewis Macdonald: This is a matter for local authorities. The information requested is not held centrally.

People with Learning Disabilities

Margaret Mitchell (Central Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many established assessment centres there are for people with learning disabilities.

Margaret Mitchell (Central Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many places there are in established assessment centres for people with learning disabilities.

Margaret Mitchell (Central Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many people who have been referred to assessment centres for people with learning disabilities in the last year have been deemed unsuitable to live in the community.

Lewis Macdonald: This information is not held centrally.

People with Learning Disabilities

Margaret Mitchell (Central Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive where people with learning disabilities who have been assessed as being unsuitable to live in the community in the last year have been placed.

Lewis Macdonald: Individuals may be unable to live in the community for a variety of reasons and should be in a setting that is appropriate to their needs, this may be an NHS assessment and treatment facility or a criminal justice setting.

  Research was undertaken into people with learning disabilities and/or autism spectrum disorders in secure, forensic and other specialist settings in 2004. A report of the findings is available at the following link: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2004/06/19505/38853.